More details on Lake City SWAT incident

Seattle Police SWAT team members fire to break the windows of a unit at the Meadowbrook View apartments where an armed man was thought to be hiding. (Thom Weinstein/seattlepi.com)

More details emerged Thursday about a SWAT incident late last week in Lake City.

Police were called about 5:30 p.m. Friday to an apartment the 11000 block of Lake City Way Northeast where a man was thought to be barricaded in the Meadowbrook View Apartments. The SWAT team entered the apartment about 10 p.m., but found the unit to be empty.

The man remained at large Thursday afternoon, police spokesman Jeff Kappel said.

When police arrived at the scene Friday, they found a woman in her 40s sitting on the sidewalk with cuts and blunt-force trauma to her face, making it difficult for her to talk. She later explained to police she’d been dragged out of the suspect’s apartment after being raped by the suspect.

Police guide residents out of a neighboring apartment building during the standoff at the Meadowbrook View apartments. (Cliff DesPeaux/seattlepi.com)

She met the suspect in a downtown bar and went back to his Lake City apartment to smoke cocaine and “he was then suppose to take her back to see her kids,” according to a police report.

The suspect asked for sexual act. The woman refused. He started punching her, stripped off her clothes and raped her, according to police.

After the sexual assault, the woman was thrown outside.

A police negotiator made phone contact with the man, who told police he was armed with a .40-caliber pistol.

Police reported he was initially cooperative when a negotiator called inside. It is not clear when the man fled.

The suspect is described as a 48 year-old black man, 6-foot-1 and 185 pounds. He has a muscular build, bald head and a mustache. Police did not release his name or a photo.